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Edition 2009-02

Hail days by metro, February 2009.

In February 2009, 49 of 333 metros had at least one day with a hail report within 10 miles of their centre, against 35 in February 2008. Birmingham, AL led with 2 days, against its own February mean of 0.2 over 13 prior years of record. Tyler, TX was furthest above its own record, at 2 days against a mean of 0.1. On 100 percent of metro hail days at least one report was measured by a person or an instrument; the rest were detected by radar alone. Nationally the month had 15 days with hail on record, against 19 a year earlier.

49

Of 333 metros with a hail day

15

Days with hail on record nationally

100%

Of metro hail days carried a measured report

4.50in

Largest measured, 10 Feb, OK

Hail days by metro, February 2009

Against each metro's own February on record

Hail days by metro, February 2009: each metro's hail days in the window, its year to date, its own mean for the span over the record, the share of its days carried by a measured report, and its largest measured and largest detected hail.
Rank Metro Days Year to date February mean Measured share Largest measured Largest detected
01 Birmingham, AL 2 +1.9 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
02 Clarksville, TN 2 +1.9 2 0.2 100% 2 of 2 days measured 0.75″ None detected
03 Tuscaloosa, AL 2 +1.6 2 0.4 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
04 Tyler, TX 2 +1.9 2 0.1 100% 2 of 2 days measured 1.00″ None detected
05 Phoenix, AZ 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
06 San Antonio, TX 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
07 Jacksonville, FL 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
08 Austin, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
09 Fort Worth, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
10 Seattle, WA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
11 Oklahoma City, OK 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 2.75″ None detected
12 Memphis, TN 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
13 Mesa, AZ 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
14 Atlanta, GA 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
15 Anaheim, CA 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
16 Cincinnati, OH 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
17 Boise City, ID 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
18 San Bernardino, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
19 McKinney, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
20 Des Moines, IA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
21 Little Rock, AR 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
22 Montgomery, AL 1 +0.9 2 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.50″ None detected
23 Ontario, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
24 Macon-Bibb County, GA 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
25 Charleston, SC 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
26 Escondido, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
27 Savannah, GA 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
28 Pomona, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
29 Jackson, MS 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
30 Cedar Rapids, IA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
31 Meridian, ID 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
32 Lewisville, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
33 Carrollton, TX 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
34 Santa Clara, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
35 Round Rock, TX 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
36 Columbia, MO 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
37 Athens, GA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
38 North Charleston, SC 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.75″ None detected
39 League City, TX 1 +0.8 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.00″ None detected
40 Nampa, ID 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
41 Menifee, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
42 Beaumont, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.2 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
43 Murrieta, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
44 New Braunfels, TX 1 +0.6 1 0.4 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
45 South Fulton, GA 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
46 Sandy Springs, GA 1 +0.7 1 0.3 100% 1 of 1 day measured 1.75″ None detected
47 Rialto, CA 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected
48 Wichita Falls, TX 1 +0.9 1 0.1 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.88″ None detected
49 Carmel, IN 1 +1.0 1 0.0 100% 1 of 1 day measured 0.25″ None detected

By state

The states by the hail days filed under each by its source, busiest first, with February 2008 beside it. The first 15 of 27; the rest are on their own pages.

  1. 01 Louisiana 6 days
    • 6 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 7 in February 2008
  2. 02 Texas 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 2.75″
    • 9 in February 2008
  3. 03 Arkansas 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in February 2008
  4. 04 Tennessee 4 days
    • 4 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 2 in February 2008
  5. 05 Oklahoma 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 4.50″
    • 5 in February 2008
  6. 06 Alabama 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 7 in February 2008
  7. 07 Georgia 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 4.25″
    • 4 in February 2008
  8. 08 Kentucky 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 2.00″
    • 2 in February 2008
  9. 09 Mississippi 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 5 in February 2008
  10. 10 California 3 days
    • 3 measured
    • 0.50″
    • 4 in February 2008
  11. 11 Missouri 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 6 in February 2008
  12. 12 Iowa 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.00″
    • 1 in February 2008
  13. 13 South Carolina 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.00″
    • none in February 2008
  14. 14 Kansas 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 1.75″
    • 4 in February 2008
  15. 15 Illinois 2 days
    • 2 measured
    • 0.75″
    • 3 in February 2008

The busiest day of the month

Wednesday 18 February 2009

Hail reports
490
Sources
×3
Measured
4.25″
States
11

Against February 2008

The same month a year earlier, counted the same way; the February 2008 edition has the full table. Wichita, KS led then with 3 days.

49 +14

Metros with a hail day

February 2008 35

15 −4

Days with hail on record nationally

February 2008 19

15 −4

Days with a measured hail report

February 2008 19

1,580 +195

Hail reports, all sources

February 2008 1,385

Cite this edition

Titan Weather, Hail days by metro, February 2009. Compiled 26 August 2026. https://titanweather.com/data/2009/02

Compiled 26 August 2026 from the public federal storm record. The figures are the record as it stands; a revision by a federal source is carried here at the same address. The file carries every metro in the series, the ones with nothing this month included, with the same provenance line inside it.

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How this series is made

A metro
A metro, as this series uses the word, is a place the Census Bureau lists with a population of 100,000 or more, not a metropolitan statistical area. Smaller places have a hail-history page of their own; they are not in this table.
A hail day
A calendar date with at least one hail report in the archive within 10 miles of the metro's Census centre, from any source. Four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
The mean
The metro's own hail days over the same span of the calendar, February, in each of the 13 prior years the record reaches, from 1996, divided by those years. A span is compared with itself, never with the country.
The measured share
Of a metro's hail days, the share on which at least one report came from a person or an instrument rather than from radar alone. A detection is a detection and is marked as one here and in every document we issue; the two are never added together.
Overlap
Two metros within 20 miles of each other share reports, so their counts are not exclusive and the national figures are distinct dates, not a sum of the table. The table ranks the record around each centre; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 26 August 2026 and rebuilt as the federal sources revise it. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

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